Launched in August 2004, PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and book chapters in the American Psychological Association's array of quality electronic databases. Each month books published by APA and classic books from other publishers are added to the database. In 2007, the database offering includes over 1400 titles, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002, approximately 120 archival resources in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology with over 1,500 authored entries.

The database can be searched specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or indexing, or by author names and book titles. Each retrieved record has a link to the corresponding full-text chapter, which is almost always available in PDF format (so Adobe Acrobat reader is needed for viewing). Each record also has a link to the Table of Contents (TOC) for the book in which the chapter is published.

The database can also be searched for content of interest by browsing directly through the book titles and then clicking to the tables of contents for the respective chapters. In addition, an alerting function is available that sends an email to the user notifying them that a new book has been added to the database.

Some Classic Books do not have an ISBN assigned.

Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

• Applied psychology
• Communication systems
• Developmental psychology
• Educational psychology
• Experimental human and animal psychology
• Personality
• Psychological and physical disorders
• Physiological psychology and neuroscience
• Professional personnel and issues
• Psychometrics and statistics
• Social psychology
• Social processes and issues
• Sports psychology and leisure
• Treatment and prevention

• Track the latest research on a particular psychological disorder and its treatment
• Review the latest findings on aphasia
• Study the impact of organizational structure on job performance
• Keep abreast of latest advances in sports psychology
• Explore cutting-edge research on neural networks and artificial intelligence
• Follow new techniques in educational psychology
• Review animal psychology as reflected in behavior patterns